SPB TV Showcases The Three Screens TV Solution at Mobile World Congress 2012

February 27th, 2012 – SPB TV (SPB TV trademark), the leading provider of technology solutions for mobile TV, announced today the launch of the SPB TV Solution for Three Screens, enabling mobile operators, cable, satellite, and IP TV service providers to enhance their TV broadcasting expertise and deliver HD television to their subscribers across all screens, including mobile phones, tablets, PCs, set-top boxes and smart TVs. Being affordable, fast to market, and easily manageable, the solution allows providers to increase customer engagement and revenues with relatively low investments.

“During the last MWC we received a lot of requests to elaborate the TV solution for multi-screen devices, the same convenient, flexible, advantageous for the providers, and enjoyable for the end-users, as our mobile TV," says Kirill Philippov, CEO of SPB TV, "SPB TV Three Screens, unveiled at MWC 2012, exceeds these expectations and offers multi-screen HD video delivery, content protection and plenty of sophisticated features that empower our partners to reach new markets and beat the competition there.”

The key-element of the solution - SPB TV Media Platform - incorporates professional encoding and streaming servers and is capable to process all modern video formats from various inputs, both IP and satellite. SPB TV platform supports adaptive streaming technologies, such as RTSP, Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming and Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming, that ensure smooth video delivery, without frame drops or blurriness, across various network bandwidth capabilities. Due to multi-rate video encoding for different screen resolutions the platform provides the best video quality on any device, from a tiny feature phone to a large HD TV set. The advanced middleware provides the operator with content management and conditional access systems available from one control point.

The solution is packed up with an award-winning SPB TV Client, which advanced functions and eye-catchy design elements make TV watching experience comfortable and enjoyable for the subscribers.

SPB TV solution can be delivered in a server-based or software-based configuration, and seamlessly integrated with the existing infrastructure, CMS and billing system, providing high scalability to support the consumer growth. To the providers looking for a turn-key service, SPB TV offers a cost-effective package, including content aggregation, hosting, multi-screen and multiplatform content delivery and the best in class client-side software.

SPB TV (SPB TV trademark) is one of the world’s leading providers of end-to-end mobile and IP TV solutions and helps network operators, content owners and broadcasters to deliver video content to multi-screen devices. SPB TV solutions are integrated by the largest mobile operators, including StarHub, MTS, MegaFon, BSNL; and have been recognized through a variety of awards, including CSI Award, Google Developer Challenge , BlackBerry Super Apps Challenge and more. The SPB TV client is available on all main devices and operating systems, such as iOS, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, Maemo, bada, WebOS, Windows PC and Mac OS X. For more information, please visit www.spbtv.com.